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"The President and the Attorney General," rumbled Mississippi's Segregationist Governor Ross Barnett, "have encouraged demonstrations, freedom rides, sit-ins, picketing and actual violation of local laws. Gentlemen, if you pass this civil rights legislation, you are passing it under the threat of mob action and violence on the...
McNamara got sizzling angry. It wasn't that he "doubted the truth" of the memo, he told a purpling Senator McClellan. But he himself, said McNamara. had "done everything possible to bottle up what is a very damaging memorandum." He had directly ordered that it be locked in a...
When the House voted to cut appropriations for Powell's Education and Labor Committee by 40%, the word from Powell's side was that Negro-hating Southern Congressmen arranged the reduction. Last week, after Powell attacked the N.A.A.C.P. on the strange ground that it is controlled by whites...
The Four Days of Naples. On Sept. 8, 1943, the day Badoglio surrendered to Eisenhower, the lid of a manhole lifted hesitantly in a Neapolitan alley and a draft dodger squinted at the unaccustomed sunlight. "La 'uerr' ê finood'!" the mob above him bellowed in delirium. The...
At the same time in Miami Beach, the feudal, feuding barons of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. Executive Council (average age: 62) met at the gaudy Americana Hotel. As if aware of possible criticism, they avoided the Americana's pools, eschewed Dionysian pleasures, spent most of their time in worried huddles...